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Space: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions.

Lenny and Lexie wearing eclipse glasses

Lenny and Lexie Get Ready for a Solar Eclipse

Hands-on Activities

Help Lenny and Lexie get ready for a solar eclipse using your unplugged coding skills.

A family watches an eclipse

Eclipse Watching

Hands-on Activities

Things to do on solar eclipse day!

Child using box eclipse viewer

Three Ways to Make a Solar Eclipse Viewer

Hands-on Activities

Safely view a solar eclipse by making and using a pinhole solar eclipse viewer.

Lunar eclipse

The Earth Moon System

Backgrounders

Answers to some common questions about Earth’s Moon.

Lunar lander floating above the moon, with the Earth in the background

Let's Talk Space Exploration Resources

Backgrounders

Discover a set of resources to develop background knowledge on the topic of space exploration.

Astronauts from the Apollo Mission landing on the moon.

Let's Talk Lunar Resources

Backgrounders

Discover some background information on how we'll learn to live and work on the Moon - and beyond!

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Why is it colder in the winter even though the Earth is closer to the Sun?

Hands-on Activities

Learn why we have seasons in this hands on activity.

The planet Mars

What is your weight on another planet?

Hands-on Activities

Do you weigh the same on Jupiter as you do on Earth? Learn to calculate your weight on a different planet.

Full moon

Moon: Phases

Picture Collections

8 images of different lunar phases showing the portion of the Moon lit by the Sun as the Moon orbits the Earth and as seen by us on Earth